Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, as if knowing his words were vain, he seemed to give up argument and to abandon himself to an emotional plea for his pet bill. He spoke of his undeveloped, unappreciated, unknown country...
...mothers and our children when we blackshirts daily left our houses without knowing whether we would return. I .will not mention the tears of the mothers, the relatives of the martyrs to our cause, when at the moment they thought their sacrifices might have been made in vain. I ask you only to do your duty...
...notorious Germany spy, Mata Hari, during the War, that he had traitorously sold information to the Germans, fomented mutinies and was even chiefly responsible for the Allied setback at the Chemin des Dames. They demanded to know why M. Briand had included such a man in his Cabinet.* In vain the Government, supporters yelled hack that most of these charges were lies in the first place and that anyhow M. Malvy had expiated whatever guilt was his by submitting to a sentence of exile, until released by the general amnesty. Jeeringly Deputy Ybarnegaray cried: "Since he is so guiltless...
...many a roseate popular illusion, alleviating the author's feelings and his passion for unvarnished verity. They are mostly revelations of people, beheld in their reactions to McDougall or his cartoons of them. J. P. Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...
...glad they got in uh crack uhbout thet christmus tree on th' corner uv Tremont an' Boylstun Streets, better known ez James F Mahoney Square. Ef any uv these Harvard undergraduates understand whut th' thing is all uhbout--I mean th' Xmas tree signul--then there educatiun aint in vain...